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Composition and evolution of the vertebrate and mammalian selenoproteomes.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Mariotti Marco, Ridge Perry G, Zhang Yan, Lobanov Alexei V, Pringle Thomas H, Guigo Roderic, Hatfield Dolph L, Gladyshev Vadim N
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Selenium is an essential trace element in mammals due to its presence in proteins in the form of selenocysteine (Sec). Human genome codes for 25 Sec-containing protein genes, and mouse and rat genomes for 24. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We characterized the selenoproteomes of 44 sequenced vertebrates by applying gene prediction and phylogenetic reconstruction methods, supplemented with the...
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